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About the Role

The Portfolio Solutions Pricing Lead is a senior, market-facing role within the Structured Portfolio Solutions team, blending actuarial expertise with underwriting judgment to support strategy, portfolio development, and profitable growth. The role involves deep actuarial and portfolio analytics, underwriting discussions, broker engagement, and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Price new and existing SPS portfolio-level deals, including complex cross-class structures.
• Assess and iterate pricing assumptions as deal structures evolve.
• Monitor portfolio performance against original pricing and underwriting assumptions.
• Track premium mix, utilisation, exposure, and concentration against plan.
• Identify emerging risks, blind spots, and areas of over- or under-exposure.
• Support reserving and reinsurance analysis for SPS portfolios.
• Define requirements for portfolio monitoring tools and dashboards.
• Work in partnership with IPA colleagues to deliver analytical tools and MI.
• Engage directly with brokers and partners on deal structure, assumptions, and portfolio performance.
• Contribute to SPS strategic discussions, supporting profitable portfolio growth and scalability.

Requirements

• Strong actuarial or pricing experience within a portfolio, specialty, or wholesale insurance environment.
• Proven ability to analyse and interpret portfolio performance, exposure, and concentration data to support underwriting and commercial decision-making.
• Strong commercial understanding of underwriting strategy, portfolio management, and profitable growth.
• Confidence in engaging with brokers, partners, and internal stakeholders on deal structures, assumptions, and portfolio performance.
• Ability to translate complex analytics into clear, actionable insight for underwriters, senior leadership, and other non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and build alignment across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and initiatives, delivering high-quality outcomes to agreed timelines.
• Strong technical capability in Excel and Microsoft Office, with experience handling and analysing large, complex datasets.
• Experience with SQL, data visualisation tools, or advanced analytics techniques would be advantageous.

Skills

• Actuarial expertise
• Underwriting judgment
• Portfolio analytics
• Excel
• Microsoft Office
• SQL
• Data visualisation tools
• Advanced analytics techniques

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• Great starting salary plus annual bonus

Benefits

• Up to 16% company pension scheme
• Private medical and dental cover
• Menopause plan
• Emergency care benefit (children/Pets/dependants)
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• Electric car scheme
• Travel insurance
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• Opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career

About the Company

• The Structured Portfolio Solutions (SPS) team sits within Markel’s Specialty underwriting division and focuses on building and managing portfolio‑based underwriting solutions across multiple lines of business.
• SPS works closely with brokers and strategic partners to develop scalable, data‑driven structures that support profitable growth and effective portfolio management.
• Part of Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
• We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further.

Equal Opportunity

• At Markel we are all about the people, celebrating the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances.
• Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you.
• We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
• We will ensure that individuals are provided with any reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful.
• Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed, including alternative formats of documents or information on how to apply offline.